Chris Grant

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Principal Engineer at Keystone Security · Prometheus, Linux

Keystone Security
Philadelphia, PA · ET (UTC-5)
9+ years experience
Johns Hopkins University
English
Open to work
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Overview

I work on cloud infrastructure at Keystone Security in Philadelphia. Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 753ms to 97ms. Moved 85% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Plant-based cook and baker.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in AI applications
  • Working sessions on AWS
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Courses and coaching offers

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
TerraformLinuxPrometheusGoincident responseAWS
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Open to Site Reliability Engineer roles at growth-stage creator tools companies

Target roles
Site Reliability Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
Developer tools, Climate tech
Work mode
Remote
Available
30 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the PA
What I'm looking for
Scope to lead AI applications work, with a manager who gives direct feedback.
Not interested in
Night shifts

18 years in cloud infrastructure. Strongest at Prometheus and Linux. Available immediately.

Philadelphia, PAlinuxawsgo
Open

Experience

  1. Principal Engineer
    Dec 2025 - Present
    Keystone Security · 10 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
    • Sit on 6 boards.
    • Led or co-led 24 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2024 - Dec 2025
    Intuit · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
    • Moved 87% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 23% in two quarters.
  3. Senior Site Reliability Engineer
    Jul 2022 - Apr 2024
    Walmart · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
    • Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 22% in two quarters.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
    Instacart · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
    • Led the migration of 64 services to incident response.
  5. Staff Site Reliability Engineer
    May 2017 - Jul 2018
    Oracle · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
    • Wrote the Terraform service that now handles 56 million requests a day.
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 400ms to 64ms.

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Education

  1. Johns Hopkins University
    MS, Electrical Engineering
    2008 - 2010
  2. Stanford University
    BS, Electrical Engineering
    2003 - 2007

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